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There’s going to be a sold out house at Rådhusteatret on Sunday afternoon, and a 100 young musicians will have a memory for life. At 4 pm things will go off with a bang for the members of Nordby, Ski and Drøbak/Frogn school marching bands. This is the fifth year we will have a celebrity concert. It started with our 50 year anniversary in 2009. Back then Rein Alexander joined us. We felt it worked out so well that we wanted to have more people join us. Ski and Drøbak/Frogn joined us after.

- We’ve had visits from Ravi, Tommy Steine and Marian Aas Hansen last year, says Bård A. Granerud, head ofthe Nordby school marching band. They had a big rehearsal at Nordby School on Monday night. – We had the first rehearsal in Drøbak right after school began. Then the school marching bands have practised separately until now. Alexander arrives on Friday and joins us both on Saturday and Sunday. He is very much looking forward to it,- says Granerud.

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Rybak sees a talent from afar
Sensational in every sense, the TV project of the STV channel “Singing cities” is getting ready to interest and firmly glue many viewers to the screen in its second season. Straight away the show brought the statue in the entertainment category of contest ” Tele-top-2013″ to its creators. And what a noise the participants have made! I mean, they sang a lot of songs, and the quantity of the the songs were even more during the qualifying stages. And this year we can do nothing without casting too. Before the show will go to the second round , you need to find the most talented contestants. Last week, the selection finally took place in Minsk , and correspondents of ” SB” did not miss a chance to look into the Youth Estrade Theatre.

It was there where the long-awaited casting for the capital’s residents having musical abilities took place . It was curious not at least because it was Alexander Rybak who became a mentor for the contestants and even personally chose them. Probably every amateur fisherman without...

“Alexander Rybak considers Montvydas as one of the favorites and wants to shake his hand”
The winner of “Eurovision” in 2009 Alexander Rybak who will come to perform at the final show of the “Voice of Lithuania” during Easter, said in an exclusive interview to DELFI that he is very interested in the contestants of this year and their songs. He mentioned the representative of Lithuania Donatas Montvydas as one of the favorites.

“I saw the performance of your representative, and as a person he is very similar to the guys from Back Street Boys. But seriously Donatas Montvydas sings very purely in tune, and I’m really looking forward to his performance on the “Eurovision” stage. I also like that he sings alone, without dancers. Watching such a performance you hear the music instead of seeing some men showing off behind the performers. However during my performance there were dancers too, but it was just decided like that, I would be happy to sing without them as well. I hope to meet D. Montvydas on “Eurovision”, but not because he needs my advice, but just to shake the hand of this great guy for everything he does, “- said Alexander Rybak...

Øvre Eiker: – ” Hi, my name is Alexander Rybak. What are your names? I will count to three and then you say your names. One, two, three…”

330 pupils from Vestfossen Children-school shout their names as loud as they can from the tribune-seats at Vestfossen Flerbrukshall.

” Very good! Now we know eachother!” – says Rybak.

It is Tuesday morning and expectant school-children, who have all brougt a pen and paper, hoping for an autograph, will get a small taste of wednesdays concert with Eiker Stringorchestra and Vestfossen girls- and boy-chorps. And of course the main character – Alexander Rybak.

'Spooky'

“I have wished to get the chance to play with him some day” – says Vanessa Cameren(9)” And now I get it”, smiles the young violinist, who is one of 60 young musicians and majorettes who will give concert this evening in the sportshall.

Hedda Berglien (7) has seen Rybak on TV, and finds it very cool to get to play with him. She has played some concerts before, but thinks it is a little spooky to perform for such a large audience. Cameren thinks the same: “I am really scared” –...

He lifts his violin, grabs his bow and – bang! The show is running. Gym instructor Alexander whirls, jumps, kneels down. Every muscle is about to explode. Calves, thighs, stomach, back – everything is trimmed at Friskis & Svettis in Oslo.

Alexander Rybak, 23 – the fiddler who got the whole world at his feet – has found the trick that no other violinist could dream of.
-Working out at Friskis & Svettis. “It is the spice that makes my show exciting. I have more energy and self-confidence”, he says.

Three years ago, Alexander got his license as a gym instructor. In the beginning it was easy to book instruction time with him on the F & S in Vika, Oslo. Today, it is not. Alexander...

Cool celebrities should pick on the ones further down the hierarchy. Therefore we let Morten Ramm from “Torsdagskveld fra Nydalen» nag on the fiddle-Jack Alexander Rybak.

How many girls have you actually “said hi to”?
- It is not few enough that I can keep the count, and there are not many enough that it might be fun to keep counting.

You’ve done all that an artist should not do in the media. Why?
- I was overwhelmed by the fact that people liked me, but eventually it was more important to be understood than to be popular.

But people still not understand you yet?
- There are a few who understand me, and we meet at TGI Friday’s every week.

What was the quarrel between you and Didrik Solli-Tangen about?
- We were two young promising guys who both were busy with our work. Media wanted to put us together in all possible settings. We did not need the media to do that for us, because we had managed to do it ourselves if we had wanted and had time for it.

Alexander Rybak admits, that he is probably as many other guys, when it comes to styling. – “I am probably one of those, who pretend I don´t care about what I wear, but actually, I spend more time in front of the mirror, than one should think”,- says Alexander.

The fiddler is ready for a makeover with Jan Thomas, but points out clearly, that there is one area, the stylist is absolutely not allowed to do anything about:

- “Stay away from the eyebrows!”

Alexander prefers to keep a casual and free style and tells, that he has become more confident of his style the last two years since his career really took off. Yet, Alexander is not interested in being any kind of trendsetter.

Premiere. Both Alexander Rybak and Dennis Storhøi admit they are a bit nervous before the premiere of their Christmas tour with Anne Vada in Lommedalen Church.

- I thought that one was calmer, the more experience you got, but this is not how it is, Rybak says. We meet him, Storhøi and Vada in Lommedalen Church, where they are rehearsing for their new Christmas concert “Vinterbilder”. It is premiere at the church Friday, before they go furter out on tour to several places in «Østlandet» and then to «Vestlandet» and «Trøndelag» (the easter, west, and middel of Norway).
Speaking of nervous, Rybak tried to get some advice from Storhøi in a sense.

- Yes,he asked me, Storhøi says, and underlines with clear mime that it was the wrong man to ask,becausehe admits clearly that he has plenty of nervousness in front of new perfomances but adds that this is how it should be, to have a good result.

Withstands eager Rybak

Rybak and Storhøi played together in “Fiddler on the roof” at Oslo NyeTheater in 2007.

"It does not help to try to warm themselves with fur when they are cold towards other living beings" says the artist Alexander Rybak.

More and more people want to show their opposition to fur farming, and it is also well-known artists and cultural profiles. NOAH's campaign has now gathered support from 150 artists, actors, sports sections, fashion sections, writers, comedians, etc. Several of them also make the appeal in NOAH Torchlight against fur 12 november. November.

- NOAH is very pleased that the opposition to fur farming is growing stronger every year. It means a lot that profile individuals choose to take a stand against fur, and do not show up in fur products, but make an effort to combat animal cruelty, says manager and veterinarian in NOAH - for animal rights, Siri Martinsen.

Arbout 70 children and young people got to work with Alexander Rybak and ended with a bang.

Since Friday, children and young people from Helgeland, Sweden and Russia worked intensively to put together songs for a final concert on Sunday evening.
Promoter Prima Music School and Violetta Sørensen has worked continuously for 2 months to put it all together.
There have been some tough months until now. It’s a challenge to guide so many children and young people up to such an event. I want to thank parents and Helgeland Sparebank for all the help, Sørensen says.
She is impressed with the will to work of both the children and of Alexander Rybak, who was hired as leader of the seminar.

- It is a pleasure to see that the childlren have had so much fun the last few days. They have endured the long days. Rybak has also been patient and taken his time for everyone. It has been entirely positive, and it’s so fun to hear kids say that they do not want to go home after the concert,- she laughs.

It is not a project, but a dream come true when Alexander will be leading 70 musicians up to the concert in the weekend.

-This is exactly what I have dreamed about. To get travel around and inspire young talent, says Alexander Rybak and let your fingers glide over the piano at Prima Music School.

'Custom youth'

Yesterday he started with 70 young, local musicians, rehearsals leading up to tomorrow's concert in Congress Hall.

-It is not long since I was in Malaysia and played for the important people and politicians. It's fun, but this is better. You come to a deeper human level, says Rybak.

He has arranged the songs specifically to fit a Norwegian youth level.

-The young people have a sense of achievement, while the public also will have an experience. It's very exciting to be with the young people to see them take these challenges in stride. It is much better interaction than if I were to held a concert here all alone, according to Alexander Rybak.

DOKKA: The Tomle-Svendsby sisters and the more than 100 dancers made a big show at the cinema, with Alexander Rybak as a guest artist.

You just have to take off your head gear and bow to the dust over the commitment, the glow, the dance happiness and the scene radiance that was shown during the dance show ‘Fairytales – still dreaming’ . The show has had four packed performances at the Dokka cinema during the weekend, with 1500 enthusiastic spectators. This was just awesome. You have to go far to find something as good as this! The response from the audience after the show was unambiguous. An ecstatic audience got on their feet and gave the more than 100 girls and boys at the stage standing ovations. And the judgment was clear: Dokka and Nordre Land have a fantastically good dance milieu. Basta!

"Rybak guest artist"

Alexander Rybak was guest artist in the show, and even if he had a rather humble role, the audience was on to the last clap when the entertainer was in the front, and Rybak himself was very satisfied after the show.

For the first time in two years the winner of ESC performed a classical concert.
“This is the first time I do a classical concert since I won the ESC, and I thank you for the support”, Rybak said after the concert. There wasn’t a single tune from Fairytale or a single halling throw in the church last night. Instead there were classical pieces by Vivali, Händel and Tchaikovsky on the set list to the popular violinist. Rybak played from Händel’s Organ concert in F-dur, from Tchaikovsky’s Serenda and from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons*.

Sven Nyhus
And a small Norwegian element, which Rybak had arranged for orchestra the play, “Bergrosa”. “It was great to add Nyhus to the concert. It was very nice”, Ragnhild Steen said, who visited the concert together with her grandchild. She liked what Rybak and his collaborating orchestra did, consisting of musicians from Tromsø and St. Petersburg with the concert master Anna Chizhik. “It was a great program with a variety of music, and he does have temper, that young man”, she says.

Alexander Rybak and Dennis Storhøi have earlier had a huge success with “Fiddler on the Roof”. “Her og Nå” can now reveal that they once again will turn their musical talents together.

Alexander Rybak (25) and Dennis Storhøi (51) have developed a close relationship through the staging of the audience- and reviewer success “Fiddler on the Roof”. Young Alexander considers the theater veteran Dennis as his artistic mentor, and the two have kept in touch since “Fiddler on the Roof”, the play Alexander was honored with the “Hedda” award (best newcomer of the year) for. The two popular artists will now again be on the same stage during the concert tour “Vinterbilder” (=Winter pictures)

A little secretive Dennis Storhøi confirms to “Her og Nå” that he now will perform with Alexander again.
- I’m of course looking forward to work with Alexander again. We have kept in touch, and it’s a good atmosphere between us, he says.

After what “Her og Nå” learnt, it will be 15 concerts in December. The established pianist Øystein Lund Olafsen is the producer, and Alexander and Dennis will be joined by the singer...

The artist Alexander Rybak thinks it’s important, to honor Ketil Moe’s memory and vision. That’s why he performed on Saturday (it was Sunday actually ) in “Dyreparken” at the Ketil Moe run race.The Grand Prix winner gave a concert and sang for nearly an hour before the race started. At the finish line he presented the medals, signed autographs and posed for pictures to the joy for both able-bodied and disabled.

Rybak lived in Lillesand until he was 11 years old (not correct. His family spent their summer holiday in the area), and new Ketil Moe. And he thinks it’s important to be present to continue Moes visions:

“There are many diseases and conditions. I caught a glimpse of cystic fibrosis through Ketil Moe. I knew him when he lived, and I was tremendously inspired by his charisma. Even at his lowest points, he was a joy- spreader. Therefore it is appropriate to arrange a race like this in his spirit, and I’m glad I had the opportunity to be here.”

Finally the dream came true. After 50 performances of “The Sound of Music”, several performances of “Mathilde from Ramsøya” and an album release, the young Kristian S. Pedersen from Arendal was going to perform with Rybak.

Sunday they managed. During Ketil Moe race in “Dyreparken” they performed the “Angel of Life” from the opera musical “Some Sunny Night” about Ketil Moe, together with composer Thomas Stanghelle. The arrangement and the performance were wonderfully beautiful

"Young boy from Arendal will sing with Rybak"

Kristian is a young boy of 13 years from Nyli in Arendal, who is in the 8th grade at Moltemyr school. He has, despite his young age, already an impressive track record and has experienced much more than others of the same age.
As a grown up, he wants to live by music and singing, or working with law and politics, he says to Arendals Tidende.

A lot of requests.
Kristian has played in Oslo Theatre Edderkoppen’s successful performance “Sound of Music” – a role he got in competition with over a thousand other children who came to audition.

"Rybak flirt with the audience and presented a versatile musical show together with his family and 3 generations Stanghelle"

The concert at Nordhordland folkehøgskule Friday evening - organized by the Friends of Music and Knarvikmila, was a fireworks display with Melodi Grand Prix winner in the center. He flirts with the audience and had great contact with people in the audience.

Wenche with the music specifies

Rybak took even walk down the rows of chairs and got an audience member up on stage during one of the tunes. Wenche Kvamme was the music specifies and got a full embrace of kosebamsar and hugs from both Rybak and Thomas Stanghelle.

- They are so earthy and straightforward. No prima donna whims there, no, stated Wenche for a festive meeting with the two men on stage.

'Signed autographs'

- It was the grandchildren have been involved. They will get teddy. Maybe I can get them signed, said Wenche. And both Alexander and the rest of the family Rybak and family Stanghelle wrote the autograph of the great gold medal after the concert.

No less than two international Grand Prix winners was present when 700 paying spectators gathered in Sykkylven – in the hope and faith for submarine cable instead of overhead lines.

'Action'

Alexander Rybak and Elisabeth Andreassen were the most famous names, and was not surprisingly given the longest time on stage.

It went by seniority, with 5 minutes for the least well known. Both Rybak and Andreassen delivered the goods as normal, primarily with familiar tunes.

Both were having the children in active participation. Not least, a memorable experience for the three local children’s choirs, “Kor kjekt,”, ”Sykkylven Barnekor” and “Ikornes Gospel Choir”. Rybak even had the RG-girls from Sykkylven IL to shed the splendor of one of his songs.

'Huge range'

And it was a special concert. In addition to the musical, a lot of the artist told why they participated, and as Robert Post said: I love the nature we have here in Sunnmøre, and we should take care of it. Twelve different musical groups participated, and with a touch of appeal and the mayor talk,...